Participants: Nick Evenson (Host), Dr. James Marcum
Series Code: UP
Program Code: UP000093A
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00:01 The following program presents principles designed
00:02 to promote good health 00:04 and is not intended to take the place 00:05 of personalized professional care. 00:07 The opinions and ideas expressed 00:09 are those of the speaker. 00:10 Viewers are encouraged to draw their own conclusions 00:13 about the information presented. 00:16 Are you tired of dealing with chronic health problems 00:19 and taking medications every day? 00:21 Today on the program, we're gonna be discussing 00:23 the topic of food as medicine. 00:25 We'll be sharing ideas that you can implement today, 00:28 regardless of where you're starting from in health. 00:31 The Ultimate Prescription starts now. 00:34 I'm Dr James Marcum. 00:36 Are you interested in discovering the reason why? 00:39 You want solutions to your health care problem. 00:42 Are you tired of taking medications? 00:45 Well, you're about to be given the Ultimate Prescription. 00:51 Hello, and thank you for joining us here today 00:53 on the Ultimate Prescription. 00:54 I'm your host Nick Evenson. 00:55 And we're gonna talk about food as medicine today here 00:58 with Dr. James Marcum. 01:00 And, Dr Marcum, thank you so much for sharing with us. 01:02 Well, it's nice to be here 01:03 and this is sort of a trend setting type series 01:06 where we talk about different foods 01:09 and how the food can change the physiology of our body, 01:12 very similar to a medication, 01:13 except it helps every cell in the body. 01:16 Today we're gonna be talking about greens. 01:18 Greens. 01:20 So you know greens are really good for you 01:22 and I'm sure there's a lot of important things that they do, 01:24 but what about prescription medications? 01:27 We see them everywhere in society. 01:29 You can't hardly even watch TV 01:31 without seeing something about prescription medications. 01:33 Well, have you ever seen 01:34 a commercial about a medication, you know? 01:36 Yeah. Ask your doctor. 01:37 Yeah, well, they'll show you two people or three people 01:41 and they take this medication 01:43 and these people don't look sick to begin with. 01:44 Their lives are perfect. 01:46 No, they look great and they take the medicine 01:48 and they look great 01:50 and they feel better and you know, 01:51 you see all that nice graphics and nice scenery, 01:54 and then at the end they say, 01:55 oh, by the way this medication can cause blindness, 01:58 sudden death, this, this, this, this and they go down the list. 02:01 Right. 02:02 But can you imagine this commercial, 02:04 would you like to have some greens in your life. 02:08 How about some kale or arugula or some spinach. 02:11 And did you know that this can help 02:12 lower your blood pressure, 02:14 this could help lower the chance of you having 02:16 a heart attack, treat anginal symptoms, 02:19 help improve your immune system, 02:21 do all this and you know what? 02:23 There is no side effects. 02:25 So go get your greens today. 02:26 No side effects, 02:28 that will be a pretty great sowing preferably. 02:29 Yeah, won't that be pretty good. 02:30 But can you imagine that? Yeah. 02:32 I mean, I don't know why we don't see those. 02:34 Yeah. 02:35 I guess, there's no money to be made. 02:36 No, that's part of the reason. 02:38 No one's making money, 02:39 but you know God has told us, 02:40 you know, back in the scriptures 02:42 that the food we eat, 02:43 you know, this is the plant, things that grow, 02:45 and if you look at greens, greens are green, 02:48 and they have chlorophyll in it, 02:50 they take the energy from the sun 02:52 and they harness that energy from the sun, 02:54 and plants give to us, 02:56 you know, they give us oxygen, they give us food, 02:59 you know, 'cause harness is that energy 03:01 and it has carbohydrates and good things, 03:03 and we eat those greens, 03:04 we harness that good energy 03:06 and it does good things to the body. 03:07 But not only that, 03:09 but not only is there healthy sugars 03:11 and carbohydrates in these, 03:12 but if you look at the color, 03:14 they have different types of chlorophyll in it 03:16 that does special things. 03:18 We have things in greens called phytonutrients. 03:21 Greens have numerous... 03:23 they have trace elements that are important for a body, 03:26 they've chemicals called nitrates 03:28 which are important for our body. 03:29 So greens are very important for our whole system. 03:33 In fact, I had a patient not too long ago, 03:36 he came to the office 03:37 and he was having a lot of angina. 03:40 What is angina? Yeah. 03:41 Well, angina is the type of chest pain you get 03:44 when your heart doesn't get enough blood. 03:46 Okay. 03:48 So let's say you're doing something, 03:49 the heart doesn't get enough blood, 03:50 because we have blockages in the arteries of the heart. 03:53 Well, the heart doesn't get enough blood, 03:54 so you have a symptom, and usually it happens 03:56 when someone's doing things. 03:58 That's why I put people on treadmill test 04:00 to see if we can produce that symptom. 04:02 So this gentleman would just walk a short period, 04:04 again he get real tightness in his chest 04:06 that would go away when he walked, 04:07 we call that angina. 04:09 Well, he had been through numerous, 04:11 he had already been through bypass surgery, 04:14 he was a diabetic which makes arteries smaller. 04:17 Remember, the bypass doesn't take away the blockages, 04:20 there are still there. 04:21 And some of the blockages 04:22 through the years were getting worse 04:24 and now he's having chest pain, angina. 04:25 But he was on a lot of medicine 04:27 and we couldn't do any more procedures, 04:29 so I introduced him to the MET medicinal treatment of greens. 04:33 So he started eating greens three times a day, 04:37 and his angina started getting better. 04:39 I'm gonna stop you right there for a second. 04:40 Yeah. 04:42 How did he respond when you told him, 04:43 I want you to eat more greens? 04:45 Does that and it doesn't seem like maybe something that's 04:46 that significant to some people. 04:47 Good point, good point, because he didn't. 04:49 I had to show him the studies, 04:51 I had to show him the proof, and then I said, 04:53 "Well, listen, why don't you do it 04:55 for one week 04:57 and see how you feel, 04:59 and come back and let me know." 05:00 That's an easy enough thing to do. 05:01 Yeah, so what I did is I explain to him 05:03 how greens and spinach 05:05 had a chemical called nitrates in them. 05:08 And nitrates when it gets in the body 05:10 is converted to nitric oxide. 05:12 Right. 05:13 Nitric oxide makes the arteries get bigger, 05:16 in the heart they got bigger but it helps everywhere. 05:18 It helps in the brain, throughout the body, 05:20 it helps our blood vessels get bigger when we have, 05:22 more have nitric oxide. 05:25 And I also said, there is foods that we put in our bodies 05:27 that decrease the amount of nitric oxide that's made. 05:31 Fatty foods, you know, processed foods 05:33 that decreases nitric oxide, so when you eat those things, 05:36 the arteries don't get as big, 05:38 but when you eat these it gets big, 05:39 just like if I gave you nitroglycerin, 05:42 that's a nitrate. 05:43 And so I taught him to eat these things, 05:45 so he started eating just a handful. 05:47 He would just eat arugula, 05:49 a handful of this about three times a day. 05:52 And guess what? 05:53 All of a sudden he could start walking more. 05:56 Now the walking helped his health as well, 05:58 but when his arteries got a little bit bigger, 06:00 he notices that his angina got better quite a bit. 06:04 Now the arugula you said it has a nitrates in it 06:07 which make your blood vessel or your, what are they? 06:09 Not blood vessel bigger. 06:11 Well, it's nitric oxide to the endothelium 06:13 which is sort of the brains in the blood vessel, 06:15 it makes the artery start to get bigger. 06:17 If you remember, it's not how much blockage, 06:18 it's how much the arteries get bigger 06:20 when we need them to get bigger. 06:21 That was my question. Yeah. 06:23 Is the blockage still there? 06:24 Did the green helped to get rid of the blockage? 06:25 In certain situations if we get our cholesterol down, 06:28 and if we get our stress down, 06:30 if we eat a healthy enough diet, 06:31 get our fats out of the body, 06:34 it could help in the process of reversing it, 06:36 but for him it just gave 06:38 the endothelium nitric oxide more of that, 06:41 and it made the arteries get bigger. 06:43 Now he started, when he started eating greens, 06:45 Nick, he also started eating less 06:48 of the other bad foods he used to eat. 06:49 Okay. 06:51 He used to eat less of the fatty foods... 06:52 Okay. 06:53 The processed foods or things that would cause... 06:55 He liked ice cream a whole lot. Yeah. 06:58 And including the ice cream which had a lot of fat in it, 07:01 he started substituting greens 07:03 and he got fat and once he learned 07:05 the less fat he eats, the more greens he eats, 07:07 the better he feels. 07:08 Yeah. 07:09 The more he can do and he started enjoying his life. 07:11 But remember, greens, you know, this is arugula. 07:16 Okay. 07:17 And arugula is a very good concentrator of nitrates, 07:22 but lots of greens have beneficial, 07:24 you know, effects. 07:25 You know, spinach... 07:27 Right. 07:28 Kale, you know, collards, 07:30 you know, anything that's green has beneficial effects, 07:33 and there's lots of studies 07:34 that show that the arteries get bigger. 07:36 So not only does it help angina 07:38 but it can help lower blood pressure, 07:40 'cause the arteries get bigger. 07:42 It has also in addition to nitrates, 07:44 it has antioxidants in them. 07:46 Right. 07:47 You know, you've heard of oxidation in the body, 07:50 that's the body just getting older, 07:51 we say it's oxidizing. 07:53 Kind of like rusting in the inside. 07:54 Yes, rusting in the inside. 07:56 You know, how... 07:58 a good example of that is you eat a piece of fruit 08:01 and you see it get brown, that's oxidation. 08:03 Okay. It getting older. 08:05 That's happening inside of us all the time, 08:07 so these have things that counteract that process, 08:10 it's called antioxidants. 08:11 It helps with our, what we call free radicals in the body, 08:15 so greens can in theory help prevent slow down aging. 08:19 It helps make our arteries bigger. 08:21 And there's lots of good studies 08:22 that have been done it helps us. 08:24 One of the studies from the Annals of Internal Medicine 08:26 around 2000 08:28 show that people that ate greens regularly, 08:30 had a 20% reduction in strokes. 08:33 Really? 08:34 So greens help strokes and it probably helps 08:36 on many mechanisms, 08:37 it makes arteries bigger, 08:39 helps inflammation in the body, it does a lot of good things. 08:42 Another thing that the greens are very useful with 08:45 is the green, the green remember... 08:47 Have you heard that word chlorophyll? 08:49 Okay. Yeah. Yeah. 08:50 Chlorophyll helps many different things in our body. 08:53 Some people think it helps remove toxins from our body, 08:56 but one of the things it helps 08:57 is it decreases damage done to our DNA, 09:01 so when we have less mutations, 09:03 we have less chance of getting cancer. 09:06 So greens have been shown 09:07 to lower the risk of getting cancer. 09:10 One of the, another things that greens do 09:11 is when we eat greens, they go in our body. 09:14 Now sunlight hits greens and you know, that's, you know, 09:17 how the greens, you know, greens needs sun. 09:20 Yeah, chlorophyll needs sunshine. 09:22 But when greens are in our body, 09:23 we have a type of sunlight 09:25 called red sunlight hat hits in us, 09:28 that goes through us, it gets into our deep organs, 09:30 and actually studies have shown that it can activate 09:34 the greens in our body, 09:37 that activates a chlorophyll, 09:38 and the chlorophyll makes an antioxidant 09:40 called ubiquinone 09:41 which is turned into a substance 09:42 called coenzyme Q10. 09:44 So greens and sunlight tend to help us 09:47 even in ways we are just now learning. 09:49 Isn't that pretty cool? 09:50 So everybody has heard that the sun is good for your skin, 09:52 you need it to hit your skin, 09:54 but you're saying it goes deeper than the skin, 09:56 it goes into the organs even. 09:57 Yes, we're now learning that it can go into the organs, 09:59 it can also hit the greens that are already in your body 10:02 and the chlorophyll is already there 10:03 to do some wonderful things like make some antioxidants, 10:06 help your coenzyme Q10 10:08 which is needed for muscle health. 10:10 Wow. 10:11 These are antioxidant 10:12 so it does a lot of different things, 10:14 there's been studies done with kale. 10:15 Do you like kale? 10:17 You know, it's not my favorite green but... 10:18 Yeah, one up. 10:20 Well... I think it's... 10:21 I don't know it's just a little tougher. 10:23 Yes, I think so too. Yeah. 10:24 Yeah, but you know, you've heard a lot of, 10:25 lot of studies have been done on kale, 10:27 the kale industry realized, 10:28 "Hey, if we can do some studies, 10:30 we can sell more kale." 10:31 Yeah. Just like the drug companies. 10:34 So kale has been shown to improve the immune system. 10:37 Kale's been shown to decrease inflammation in the body, 10:41 improves the way our bowels work. 10:43 You know, greens have fiber, 10:46 fiber helps our bowels do better. 10:47 Right. 10:48 It helps everything in our body, 10:50 you know, improve, 10:51 so a lot of people have saw that, 10:53 you know, if I eat greens of any source, 10:55 it improves all of these different things, 10:57 I can lower my blood pressure, 10:59 make all the arteries bigger, 11:00 and all the arteries get bigger everywhere, 11:02 guess what happens? 11:03 The body gets more oxygen, better energy utilization, 11:07 less aging through the antioxidants, 11:09 so these studies have shown that 11:10 when we incorporate greens into our diets, 11:13 now when can we treat things 11:14 like high blood pressure, angina, help inflammation, 11:18 help speed up our bowels, change our bowel flora, 11:21 but not only we do that, 11:22 but we also can maybe 11:24 not eat as much of the bad stuff 11:26 which can damage our bodies. 11:28 You know, kale is not necessarily 11:30 my favorite green, 11:31 but when we do have it, 11:32 we like to put it in smoothies sometimes. 11:34 How do you like to have greens in your diet? 11:35 Yeah, well... 11:37 Listen, I will just pick this up 11:38 and I would just eat it now. 11:40 I just eat like it raw. Okay. 11:42 But some people they don't like it raw some things 11:44 that I like to add to it 11:46 or things like balsamic, vinaigrettes not much bad. 11:49 Right. 11:50 You put apples on it, nuts in it, seeds in it, 11:54 you know, all these have lemon juice, 11:56 some people add figs to it, 11:58 Some people just eat it plain, some people like to cook it, 12:01 some people like to put it with other things, 12:03 but once you start eating it, you can realize, 12:05 they have different taste. 12:07 Now this is one of my favorite greens, 12:08 arugula, and arugula probably 12:10 has one of the best greens for nitrates in them. 12:13 Okay. 12:14 Lots of nitrates in arugula, 12:16 but you know, the greens are out there, 12:18 they all have different taste. 12:19 Collards, mustards, have you tasted mustard greens? 12:23 You know, that will really clear your sinuses too. 12:25 But once you start eating greens 12:27 and realize the variety in the green kingdom, 12:29 you say, wow, God has given us 12:31 a great variety of different greens 12:33 we can try, and I like to eat greens every single day. 12:36 So almost every day for lunch, 12:38 I have some type of greens in my diet, 12:41 and I'll eat it plain, 12:42 usually I put it with the salad, 12:43 I mix other things with it, 12:45 so greens is my base 12:46 and I put other vegetables with, 12:48 I might put some beans in there, 12:50 I might put some balsamic vinaigrette, some onions, 12:53 some peppers, I love peppers. 12:54 Throw in some jalapenos in with my greens, 12:57 do all that kind of stuff and eat it 12:59 and it just makes me feel good 13:00 because my arteries are getting better, 13:02 I'm lowering my blood pressure, I'm improving my immune system, 13:05 I'm making every part of my body 13:07 a little bit better. 13:08 You know, it sounds kind of insignificant, 13:11 you need to eat more greens, 13:12 and it seems like that someone 13:13 who's not a medical professional, 13:15 how could that make a big difference 13:16 but it sounds like it's really significant. 13:17 It does. 13:19 When you do it on a regular basis, 13:20 some people can't get, you know, fresh greens. 13:22 If you can't get them, you can get them frozen, 13:24 you know, you can get frozen greens, 13:26 you can get them pre-washed, 13:28 you know, you can do those things 13:29 and those greens are still beneficial to you, 13:31 maybe not as good as fresh, 13:33 but there's lots of ways 13:34 that we can help these greens increase our nitric oxide, 13:38 increase our ability to anti-oxidize aging. 13:42 So greens is truly not only a prevention for disease, 13:45 but it's used to treat disease. 13:46 So I want to see a commercial 13:48 that says how important greens are in our lives. 13:51 That's right. 13:52 You know, and I'll do it myself. 13:53 I'll get it today, hey, listen you know greens, 13:55 it does a body good. 13:56 You know, eat your greens today. 13:57 That's right. Really, no side effects. 13:59 That's right. You know, good stuff for you. 14:00 And it could change the chemistry 14:02 of every cell in the body. 14:03 That's right. 14:05 We've got a lot more to talk about 14:06 regarding health and greens 14:07 and how you can incorporate them into your diet. 14:10 So stay with us, we're gonna be right back 14:11 after a break. |
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